It has come to our attention that Upstream Reviews has listed Ridiculum as one of their Editor’s Choice Best Books of 2023. “Equal parts top-tier golden era pulp anthology and work of historical preservation, this first entry into 01 Publishing’s Immortal Classics line deserves to establish itself as a seminal single-volume introduction to the some of the greatest selections of the genre’s early roots.”Michael Gallagher, the nominating editor shared “The book is truly, a delight. Finney’s choices of entries are superb, with stories whose humor holds up nearly a century later.” Thank you Upstream Reviews for this amazing honor. You can check them out andRead More →

Publisher’s Weekly Booklife section recently reviewed Boobs of Steel for the October release of their magazine! “Finney (author of Tabula Rosa) begins his Boobs of Steel series with an exploration of the Amazon archetype and its literary, creative, and cultural influence. “Classic superheroes have been systematically insulted, debased, and then replaced by so-called ‘inclusive and diverse’ females,” he writes, asserting that those changes have negatively impacted comics. Finney looks at examples, past and present, of comic and film’s female icons, including notables like She-Hulk, Xena, and, the “seed from which all our modern action heroines sprung from,” Wonder Woman—taking note of their symbolism as well asRead More →